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So you think
they can dance?
Bipasha Basu’s arch rival Kareena
Kapoor has pipped her to the post. Bips
had expressed a desire to learn belly
dancing, but never got around to actually
doing it. Bebo did it first, learning the
dance for a performance at the IIFA
event in Macau.
Odd couples
The shelf life of leading ladies in
Bollywood gets shorter with successive
generations – Rani Mukherjee’s
career is all but over and Preity Zinta’s
is non-existent. There are different
rules, however, for heroes. The
three Khans, Shah Rukh, Aamir and
Salman, all born in 1965, have worked
with Sridevi, Madhuri and Juhi,
through Manisha, Karisma, Raveena
and Urmila to the next generation
of Kajol, Rani Mukherjee and
Preity Zinta to the current crop of
Katrina, Kareena, Priyanka and
Deepika. The new generation of
heroines is thus working with actors
old enough to be their dads!
Salaam Mumbai
Salaam Bombay star Shafiq Syed,
who now drives an auto in Bangalore,
had told the media that he wanted to
make a film on his life. Scriptwriter
Vivek Shukla read the report and
contacted him to do just that.
But how would that have looked?
She has been voice of some the greatest actors of Hindi cinema, bringing out a
myriad emotions on screen through her songs. But Lata Mangeshkar regrets not
being able to sing for actor Dilip Kumar! A new book, Lata Mangeshkar In Her Own
Voice by Nasreen Munni Kabir, reveals she shares a close relationship with the
thespian and that they admire each other as artistes. “Obviously, I cannot sing for a
man, but when I watch Dilip Kumar sing Madhuban mein Radhika naache re in Kohinoor,
I can see the veins in his neck protruding. Dilip Kumar looks as though he is actually
singing, not Rafi Saheb. If I could, I would have loved to sing for him.”
Big B says no
Has Amitabh Bachchan
had an overdose of son
Abishek? Sujoy Ghosh, the
director of Aladin, wanted to
cast Abhishek for the title role.
Big B, also in the film,
requested him to cast Ritesh
Deshmukh instead. Bachchan
Sr. apparently feels that they
have done too many movies
together and wants to work
with other people as well.
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